The Brazen Careerist

0 commentsYou might save your company $10 million, but if your boss doesn't know you did it, it will be like it never happened. So you need to manage up– systematically make sure your boss perceives that...

0 commentsWhen you lose your job, the first thing you're supposed to do is leverage your network to find another job. But here's a question I get all the time: "What do I do if everyone in my network is...

0 commentsHere is my current list of people and things I hate. It's an ongoing project that simmers week after week until it reaches boiling point and I have to spend a column venting.
1. People who are not...

0 commentsIn the early 1990s, when the job market was as bad as today, I had a college degree that was getting me nowhere. So my friend got me a job signing Esther Williams' autographs for fans.
Esther...

0 commentsThe difference between a millionaire and a working stiff is that the worker uses his job as an excuse for why he's not living his dreams, and a millionaire doesn't have that luxury. So if you want to...

0 commentsThere came a point in my career when my company went bankrupt, the economy was in the dumps, and my network of friends and acquaintances was getting me nowhere. Like all job hunters, I had good days...

0 commentsSuccess depends on being a good time manager, because it doesn't matter how good you are at your job if you never have time to do it. Herewith, four tricks:
1. Prioritize ruthlessly
Everyone...

0 commentsYou don't need to be a basketball fan to know that LeBron James recently announced that he's going to leave Cleveland and join the Miami Heat.
James is extremely talented and has been called the next...

1 commentsThe majority of people in the U.S. would like to be self-employed, according to Dartmouth economist, David Blanchflower. This makes sense because people who work for themselves are happier than...

0 commentsThe current dismal business climate encourages rule breakers. Not the kind at Enron– those are law breakers. Rule breakers break with convention.
Sallie Krawcheck, for example, was a top stock...

0 commentsThe flair with which you grow and prune your reading pile directly affects your career trajectory. Sure, you can learn from enlisting mentors and taking on new projects, but you can learn with the...

1 commentsIt often seems like you don't have much say about events in your hectic life. But when it comes to your career, there are some areas you can control.
Here are 10 things you can do to help you...

0 commentsWhen you want to establish a connection with someone, a story provides social glue. When you want to impress someone, a story is more memorable and than a list of achievements. And when someone asks...

1 commentsI get a lot of e-mail from people who are 50 years old and older and never expected to be unemployed at this stage in their careers. Many of these people are annoyed that they are not appreciated for...

0 commentsWhenever I found myself in financial trouble, the first thing I thought was, "Can I solve this problem with school?"
I learned this behavior early when boys were stealing my lunch money on the way to...

0 commentsSacrifice children or career?
My friend Liz just got an offer to be director of a groundbreaking, high-profile psychology program.
It's a lucrative, five-year contract. Liz is 35 and single and has...

0 commentsDo you need a career coach or a shrink? Or both?
I had a career coach. I got the coach the day after a meeting where I was the only woman and the only person under 30.
My boss said, "You need more...

0 commentsIf you want a big-time, hotshot career, you have to know how to talk to the press.
You might think, "Who cares? No one ever calls me." But one day, in your climb to the top, the press will call....

0 commentsOn my first date with Tano, I said, "You didn't tell me we're getting dinner."
"I'm hungry," he said.
So we went to dinner. He ordered a hamburger, fries, and a milkshake. I was broke. I ordered...

0 commentsIt's frog and toad mating season on the farm. The nighttime is noisy with nature sounds, and the pond water ripples with round tadpoles. The farmer is full of mating factoids, like toads enjoy a...

0 commentsNow that I am committed to living on a farm which is sort of the anti-New York City, visiting New York City no longer brings up flashbacks to a really, really difficult lifestyle. Instead, New York...

0 commentsThe vast majority of electronic communication today is via social media, according to Paul Greenberg, a relationship management consultant. At first, I didn't believe it; but then I thought about the...

0 commentsI have often thought that we choose to marry someone who has something we don't have, but we wish we had. So it makes sense that now that I feel secure in my relationship with the farmer, I am going...

0 commentsMy ex-husband and I always thought he'd be the stay-at-home parent, so I was shocked when I became the one changing diapers all day.
When we were dating, I was making a solid, six-figure salary in...

0 commentsWhat I'm really going to do today is tell you about career change. Because that's what I did when I wrote my book.
It wasn't the kind of career change where I was a ballerina one day and a...

0 commentsThanks to dating sites, we have a great way to gather data about the human condition without having to write grant proposals to the National Science Foundation. I first became aware of this bastion...

0 commentsHere are some things that I have recently reached the point of thinking so much about that I feel qualified to hate them:
1. Sarcasm
The use of sarcasm is always inappropriate. Sarcasm reveals...

0 commentsI've been walking around with the July/August 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review for close to three years because it contains an article that I'm attached to, "The Making of an Expert" by...

0 commentsI'm in the midst of dumping my happiness obsession for something else. My yoga teacher always told me that being mindful would make me happy– if I'd just try it. Then I got this book in the...